Knoppix 5.0.1 available:
It looks quite nice, although some of the packages are very up to
date and others are quite old. MySQL comes with 5.0.21, so
there’s probably no distribution with a more recent MySQL version
at the moment.
No Markus, Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper actually comes with 5.0.21 just as well. On June 1. And with their new Casper system, the CD you download is actually a LiveCD and an Install CD all rolled into one! 5.0.22 is a security release, for what its worth…
I’ve been using VNCViewer from RealVNC under Linux to remote connect to an older machine running windows. Two reasons, I don’t need yet another screen on my desk, and I need windows to adequately test and use the MySQL GUI products, in particular MySQL Workbench.
I never realised there was a better way, particularly over a local network, a command called rdesktop which is capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
$ su - $ yum install rdesktop
This did only give me version 1.3.1. The current version 1.4.1 available from the rdesktop Website does provide greater commands including the syntax I use.
su - cd /src wget http://optusnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/rdesktop/rdesktop-1.4.1.tar.gz tar xvfz rdesktop-1.4.1.tar.gz cd rdesktop-1.4.1 ./configure make make install …[Read more]
My friends Theo Schlossnagle, Laura Thomson and Chris Shiflett are each presenting at ApacheCon Europe. They are each excellent presenters with solid content - I have seen Theo present at a previous ApacheCon, caught Laura at several OSCONs and finally saw Shiflett speak at the PHP Quebec conference earlier this year.
The deal is simple - sign up for any of their tutorials before the early bird deadline for the conference closes (on June 6th) and get complementary copies of some of the speaker’s book(s).
The sessions are:
[Read more]Hey all. Please comment on this entry. I’m trying to get an idea of who’s listening to what I say.
Why do you read this blog? Are you interested in community wireless networks? OpenGL development on Linux? Family? Business Intelligence? Synchronizaton Manager news? Freecycle™ development? Random Perl bits? Something else I’ve forgotten about?
I’m finding myself over-extended and I need to cut back on some of the things I focus on. Please let me know what is important to you so I know how best to re-organize my time, energy and other resources.
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[Read more]On June 24th/25th, the Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon) will be held in Sankt Augustin, Germany. I have submitted two talks (in english), which both got accepted: "MySQL Administration: Backup and Security Strategies on Linux" and "The MySQL Business Model: Where and how we thrive". The sessions will take place on Saturday, but I will be around on Sunday, too. In addition to my sessions, there will be two more MySQL-related talks: "MySQL Cluster: an Introduction - A journey into High Availability" by Geert Vanderkelen (one of our MySQL Cluster Support experts) and "Pivot …
[Read more]With all the recent buzz on Planet MySQL about using LVM to perform "semi-hot" backups of MySQL on Linux, I remembered that we once created such a Perl script for a server project that we worked on in cooperation with a hardware vendor. As this particular backup method was also mentioned and recommended in my talk about MySQL backup and security on Linux and the script hasn't actually been publicly available so far, I offered to take over the ownership and release it under the GPL. The first tarball release (0.1) is now available from …
[Read more]At the 2004 Foo Camp, Danese Cooper, a few other FLOSS advocates (forgive me, Foo Camp is a blur and I don’t remember who you were) and myself gave an ad hoc session on the methods and strategies that we each used to advocate FLOSS and to help people working closed environments become more open.
The session was a blast (and well-received), so much so that Danese and I proposed the session for last year’s OSCON. We didn’t make the cut, but I still tried again for this year’s EuroOSCON and, this time, the session was accepted.
The session should be fun to present, but a bit of a bear to write. I have only 45 minutes to try to fit in the most …
[Read more]I had lunch with a company's IT staff yesterday, and asked them, "Which open source projects/products do you use?" They listed off several projects (Tomcat, etc.), but I had to prompt for the most obvious one: "And Linux? I assume you're running Linux?"
"Linux? Oh, of course, I guess we had forgotten that's open source."
This was a hugely telling remark. For this company (and, frankly, for most of the industry), "open source" is short-hand for many things, and sometimes connotes a cutting-edge, not fully baked product. This is accurate in some respects, and wholly inaccurate in others (no one could sanely call Apache, MySQL, etc. "not fully baked").
In this company's mind, Linux is just there. It works, requires no special justification, etc. It just is.
Give JBoss and MySQL a year or two, and they'll be the same. Along with hordes of other open source projects.
For those of you who, like I, have been …
[Read more]HackFest B: Creating a New SHOW Command by Brian Aker at the MySQL Users Conference
Brian stepped through the steps for those attending to modify and deploy new functionality in the mysql server. Cool. The end result I would consider for an experienced developer as relatively easy (after avoiding the pitfalls).
NOTE: I wasn’t able to complete this successfully during the session, but I’ve posted this, so hopefully the input and review of others can help in overcoming the current issues. See Outstanding Issues throughout my notes.
Our goal: Produce a new command SHOW CONFERENCE;
The following commands were performed on CentOS 4.2. There may be some …
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